Robert Stark interviews Nicolas Hausdorf
The Stark Truth. Listen here. Robert Stark talks to Nicolas Hausdorf. Nicolas is a German editor, analyst, and essayist based in Melbourne. You can read his essays at Jacobite. Topics:
Is Liechtenstein a Libertarian Utopia?
One of the few countries in the world that is neither a tyranny nor a nanny state. As is often said in other contexts, size matters. Those who are the most capable of solving problems are those who are closest to them.
Which Way for Anarchists? Revolutionary Struggle or Moral Crusading?
His Goofiness William Gillis, Chairman of the Central Committee of the People’s Revolutionary Antifascist Transhumanist Party (Market-Anarchist), says building self-determination movements that people all over the world can actually relate to is the wrong way to go. No, what we need is a “Moral Majority of the Left” […]
How Not to Do Anarchism: An Editorial
One of the primary purposes of Attack the System is to reform the anarchist movement so that it will be more capable of further growth and expansion, and to prevent the seeds of future authoritarianism from continuing to spread within the movement. The most immediately problematic aspect of […]
The Intersectionality of the Ruling Class and the Criminal Class
In spite of the low quality of many in “organized” anarchist movements, the anarchist critique of the state still stands. Interestingly, the latest Gallup poll shows that “dissatisfaction with government” and “poor leadership” is the issue most commonly as the “most important problem.” Where are the anarchists?
New York City Raids Condo Building in Crackdown on Airbnb Rentals
I invite any system-lovers who may be reading to explain exactly how it is that we don’t live in a police state. By Josh Barnabel Wall Street A team of New York City law-enforcement officers swarmed a Manhattan condominium last month, issuing 27 notices of violations for illegal […]
Anarchist News Podcast 89, 11.9.2018
This is a pretty good episode of A-News, which includes a discussion of the diversity of anarchist thought, populism, rural anarchist activism, and yours truly even gets a mention at one point. Listen here. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Welcome to the anews podcast. This is episode 88 for November 2, 2018. […]
The Brilliant, Episode 83 – Nationalism and bolo’bolo part III
The Brilliant continues its series on national-anarchism with an interview Gregor Eugen Elliott. Listen here. ———————————————————————————- The description of the interview from The Brilliant. This is an interview with Gregor of Tribes magazine. His story (and article in Tribes) is about the move from “left anarchism” to national […]
Fighting Back Against Globalism Requires An Honest Movement To Decentralize
By Brandon Smith Alt-Market.Com Over a decade ago, critics of the liberty movement would often argue that it was not enough to simply point out all the problems plaguing our economy — we needed to also offer solutions. Of course, a common Alinsky tactic is to demand your […]
In Defense of National Anarchism
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley When I first learned that I had been published on Attack the System, a site notorious for being something of a safe space for national anarchists, I was both confused and intrigued. Intrigued because the national anarchists have […]
Welcome, New Readers!
Pinned post. The post below was originally published in 2018. I like to repost it periodically in order to better connect with new readers to this site. One thing that is particularly interesting is to review the three articles in the link below, which are nearly 20 years […]
Left/Post-Left Anarchism vs. Keith Preston, Part 1
Listen to the podcast from The Brilliant here. The host’s comments: “I have been wanting to talk about the line between tribalism and nationalism for years but it is a challenge. All sides take the conversation very seriously ON THE INTERNET whereas my experience IRL isn’t quite the […]
The Way Forward?
Do the ideas of thinkers like James Corbett represent the way forward for an anarchist-led/informed revolutionary center that identifies the global power elite as the true enemy?
The Sociopathocracy Goes Full Clown Show
Childhood is an 18 Year Prison Sentence
Anarchy In Mexico: This Is How Its Done
Two, three, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, one million Cherans.
Keith Preston Not Interesting?
I recently gave an interview to a left-anarchist podcast. While they decided not to post it, there is a discussion of it on this podcast. The relevant part starts around 19:30 and the part about our interview starts around 26 minutes in. Listen here. Welcome to the Anews […]
On anarchist economies
By Iain McKay Freedom News Anarchism is generally not associated with economics — and Iain McKay argues that perhaps it’s time the field got more attention. There is no “anarchist” school of economics as there are “Marxist,” “Keynesian” and so on. This does not mean there are no […]
Looking Left to Panarchy
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I haven’t always been an anarchist but I’ve always been a radical. After being raised in the pro-life movement I discovered the Communist Manifesto as a 14 year old lapsed malcontent. I didn’t understand every word of it […]
Against the System, For the Future
“Periodic crises and wars are used to whip up support for other plunder-reward cycles which in effect tighten the noose around our individual liberties. And of course we have hordes of academic sponges, amoral businessmen, and just plain hangers-on, to act as non-productive recipients for the plunder. Stop […]
Anarchy, Not Statism; Voluntarism, Not Ruling Classes; Localism, Not Empires
Elections, Power, and the DSA: The Failure of the Left in Power
A left-anarchist discusses the limitations of social democracy. Listen here. . The discussion itself was very good, although I found the intro monologue to be something of a turn off in the sense that it sounded like a barrage of buzzwords and catchphrases (kind of like reciting the […]
Invasive Laws Create Anarchy and Tyranny at the Same Time
The late American paleoconservative columnist Samuel T. Francis on the phenomenon of “anarcho-tyranny”, a useful term for describing much of the systematic legalist bullshit plaguing the West today, particularly the U.K. and mainland Europe. ~MRDA~ By Samuel Francis If, as Bill Clinton tells us, the “era of Big […]
Anarchy: What It Is and Why Pop Culture Loves It
Hilariously, an article about anarchism appears in teen vogue magazine. It’s actually a pretty good article so far it goes. My one criticism is that it only focused on the leftist-activist version of anarchism, and not the wider range of anarchist thought. But nothing’s perfect. By Kim Kelly […]
Praise of Folly Podcasts #48: A chat with Chris Shaw on Libertarianism
Todd Lewis is joined by Chris Shaw to discuss his favorable review of Todd’s essay Contra the Self-Ownership Principle: The Nightmare of Libertopia and other topics related to anarchism and libertarianism.
On Tom Woods’s Interview of Joshua Smith
Joe Kopsick comments on Tom Woods’s August 18th, 2018 interview of Joshua Smith, at large delegate of the Libertarian National Committee. I talk about the efforts of Smith and right-libertarians to attempt to silence the debate on libertarian socialism which is happening within the Libertarian Party.
The Present and Future of the LP (and the Problem of “Libertarian Socialism”)
Tom Woods interviews Joshua Smith on the libertarian capitalist vs libertarian socialist conflict in the Libertarian Party. Listen here. Joshua Smith, who secured a spot on the Libertarian National Committee at the party’s recent convention, joins me to discuss the party’s present and future, the controversy with “libertarian […]
Pan-Anarchy Manifesto
Apparently, some ATS folks have been doing some time travel back to 100 years ago. By A.L Gordin and V.L. Gordin Panarchy.Org Pan-anarchy literally means all-embracing anarchy, ‘pan’ being ‘all’ in Greek. Pan-anarchy is a comprehensive and articulate anarchy. Aside from the ideal of no government, or anarchy […]
Political Naïveté (or what are we to do about Maoism)
By Aragorn Anarchist Library One of the reasons that anarchism has become a popular political perspective is because in many contexts (for instance mass mobilizations or broad direct action campaigns) we seem open, friendly, and nonsectarian. This is in great contrast to visible (and visibly) Marxist or Leftist […]
Anarcho-Coalitionism?
The meme below was recently posted on Facebook with the following comments by a proponent of “anarcho-coalitionism”: #AnarchoCoalitionism is militant panarchy. It’s the only way forward. The elites LIKE the masses fighting amongst each other, and that doesn’t change, no matter how “woke” you are. You are not […]
ADAM ORMES Speech – A Hermetic Politics?
ADAM ORMES – A Hermetic Politics? speech @ Second International N-AM Conference in UK,June 23-24 2018 More info : http://www.national-anarchist.net FIND US ON FACEBOOK!
EVACUATING UTOPIA: A History of Christian Anarchism
Lecture delivered by Wayne John Sturgeon at the second international conference of the National-Anarchist Movement, England, June 23, 2018. “Isn’t the world already At Peace and aren’t we The only warring faction?” -Crass Improvements made straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement, are the roads of genius. […]
It is What It Is
Build Your Community
Our Tribal-Ideological Cousins
The Anarchist Tribes
Reflections on Anarchist Rivalries
Recently an article on Medium attacked the National-Anarchist Movement, whose second annual conference was recently held in London. Read the original article here. This was my response: Some of the comments in this article are extraordinarily misinformed. National-Anarchism is very similar to older ecumenical anarchist tendencies like panarchism, […]
Anarchist Communities: Past, Present and Future
My recent presentation to the National-Anarchist Movement in England. Keith Preston’s Speech – Anarchist Communities: Past,Present and Future @ Second International N-AM Conference in UK, June 23-24 2018.
“Tribes” Magazine Now Available!
The new magazine of the National-Anarchist Movement, “Tribes,” is now available. Please contact me through this website’s contact page or via Facebook for inquiries about orders. Complimentary copies will be provided on a selective basis to reviewers, publishers, academics and journalists. Contents Editorial by Troy Southgate The Challenge […]
Where Are You as an Anarchist?
Guide to anyone confused (left to right, top row): – Anarcho-Capitalists – Anarcho-Communists – Anarcho-Syndicalists – Anarcho-Primitivists – Mutualists – Agorists – Anarcho-Transhumanists – Queer-Anarchists – Anarcha-Feminists – Anarcho-Pacifists – Egoist-Anarchists – Individualist-Anarchists – Anarchists Without Adjectives “This chart would be an overview of interaction between various N-AM […]
Review: Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the Future
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (London and New York: Verso, 2015, 2016). I approached this book with considerable eagerness and predisposed to like it. It belongs to a broad milieu of […]
Letter of Liberty
Anand Venigalla interviews Keith Preston. Listen here.
Announcing the formation of the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan & Iran
This union is a free and voluntary agreement, and each individual or group will continue to operate independently in addition to being in the union
Truth!
By Vince Rinehart What legitimizes a ruler or ruling class hasn’t changed a whole lot over time. In antiquity the emperor was supposed to be God on earth. And he was supported by true believers and those that he could bribe into following him in a mutually beneficial […]
What’s the Point of this Pan-Anarchist Revolution Thing, Anyway?
A reader on Facebook offers the following comments, and asks the following questions. I’m not so sure how realistic sustained statelessness is without severe technological regression and economic collapse, but the obvious answer is that the vast majority of people would rather bask in the lazy comforts of […]
Where is the Anarchist Vanguard Standing for “Anarchy First”?
It has been interesting to see how many predictions I made years ago have come into being. I predicted that the Eastern powers and “rogue states” would eventually rise to form an axis of resistance to the hegemony of the American empire. I predicted that populist-nationalist movements would […]
Build the Anarcho-Coalition!
This statement originally appeared on Facebook. I am re-posting it here along with my original comments in response. Here is my response:
Mises UK Forum
The Ludwig von Mises Centre has established a new discussion board. A discussion of Modern Monetary Theory is already going on. Check it out here. This should be an opportunity for some interesting dialogue.
Actual Anarchy with Keith Preston
On Scottish Liberty Podcast episode 83 with Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird. Two Scottish Libertarians talk to Keith Preston of http://www.attackthesystem.com about really existing examples of anarchism in practice including anarchic Ireland, anarchy in Iceland, the American West, the Spanish Civil War, Somalia, Marinaleda, Christiania, Monaco, Lichtenstein, Liberland […]
Praise of Folly Podcast #39: Conversation with David Friedman on Defense
Todd is joined by David Friedman to discuss difficulties involved in Privatizing National Defense.
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